Apparently, the Wayland stupidity-policy er I mean security-policy won't allow any gui application to have root privileges. I did however find a work around by logging in as root first with 'su', then launching gedit. However, since I use other gui launched apps that need root privileges, such as grub-customizer and I need desktop icons as part of my workflow, I gave-up on Wayland and dropped back to X.

Policy decisions aside, if the decision to go with letting gui applications have root access is made, then I think that the fix should be made in libwayland itself, and not left up to the individual compositors. It seems that this would be something you would want to have across the board, no matter if you're running Gnome, Weston, or (like I am), a tiling compositor that isn't in Fedora (yet).

I think this is the sano fix since it solves the problem at a common bottleneck, instead of creating two problems that have to be solved seperately. BTW, I come from a Windows background. Good luck getting me to learn VIM or NANO.